Let me be the voice in your strength and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply by six...
Teen million people, Are equal at this high pitch
Maybe we can reach alqueda through my speech
Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
I love this song by Eminem who happens to be one of my favorite artists. This song screams empowerment, autonomy and liberation. Eminem wrote this song as a form of protest right before the election in 2004 and shortly after the war started. This stanza of the poem is the one i deem most powerful. Eminem is embodying the voice of the nation speaking up for the soldiers on the front line.
Eminem uses a repetitive rhyming scheme. An A,A,A,B,B,B pattern. His flow is also repetitive with his strong emphasis on the final words. He doesn't bother using many metaphors and similes but instead just gets straight to the point. He uses a clever device that breaks up words and sentences that also stress the importance of 16,000,000 people, just for example.
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